Creating the American mind : intellect and politics in the Colonial colleges / J. David Hoeveler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoeveler, J. David, 1943-

Contributor:

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Series:

American intellectual culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--United States--History--17th century.

Universities and colleges.

Universities and colleges--United States--History--18th century.

Education, Higher--United States--History--17th century.

Education, Higher.

Education, Higher--United States--History--18th century.

History.

United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

United States.

Physical Description:

xvi, 379 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007.

Summary:

The nine colleges of colonial American confronted the major political currents of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries while serving as the primary intellectual institutions for Puritanism and the transition to Enlightenment thought. Creating the American Mind is the first book to present a synthetic treatment of the colonial colleges, tracing their role in the intellectual development of early Americans through the Revolution. J. David Hoeveler focuses on Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, the College of New Jersey (Princeton), King's College (Columbia), the College of Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania), Queen's College (Rutgers), the College of Rhode Island (Brown), and Dartmouth, while paying special attention to the collegiate experience of prominent Americans, including Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison.

Contents:

pt. 1. Institutions. Oxford and Cambridge ; Harvard I : school of the Puritans ; Yale : precarious orthodoxy ; William and Mary : beleaguered Anglicanism ; The College of New Jersey : the dangerous middle ; King's college : battle for New York ; The College of Philadelphia : the perils of neutrality ; Three from the awakening : Rhode Island college, Queen's college, Dartmouth college ; Harvard II : a liberal turn

pt. 2. Politics, Revolution, and intellectual culture. The colleges and the Revolution : New England ; The colleges and the Revolution : South and Middle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-362) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

0742548392

OCLC:

144467702

Publisher Number:

99954692033